Nintendo Does Not Fear The iPhone, Sony Does Not Fear The iPhone

***wraggster*** · July 26th, 2008, 10:45

The iPhone has a ton of promise as a gaming machine. Sega certainly think so. But what of other companies? Companies that, thanks to their stake in the handheld market, may not be quite as open to the idea of facing a new challenger? MTV found out by asking Nintendo and Sony what they thought of Apple's latest gizmo. Unsurprisingly, both were a little cold on the device. Reggie said:

From our standpoint, we are aware of what the iPhone is doing. We certainly monitor it. But just like in the home console space we’re focused on doing what it is we do well...we’ve got a large installed base that we’re looking to drive even further and to sell software into. That’s our focus. We’ll see what happens with the iPhone but it is not something that will make us change our direction.

http://kotaku.com/5028950/nintendo-d...ear-the-iphone

**alanparker05** · July 26th, 2008, 16:04

I've never seen a touch screen device yet that's any good for playing games you really need a d-pad as well that's why the ds works so well but people will still use games on iphone and try to convince themselves that it's good for playing and because of that developers will make more good games for it and ignore the psp

**acn010** · July 26th, 2008, 16:36

people are gonna end up breaking the screen cause of pressure the will put in it from stress or being pressured lol

**mike_jmg** · July 26th, 2008, 16:53

the iphone will never be a gaming device.

**jamotto** · July 26th, 2008, 17:32

The Iphone's touch screen already fails when used excessively usually in a year or less. It would make the phone the most unreliable gaming handheld ever.